I don’t think anybody thinks that.
We’re not building homes, we’re not focussing on density. But apparently our elected officials have no problem letting people set up shanty towns. Where do you think the priorities lay?
What do you mean we’re not building homes? I have plenty of homes and apartments being built in my city that cater to lots of strata of incomes.
Sure they do. Look at all of the posts from my neighbors on Facebook and Nextdoor every time a developer tries to build an apartment building instead of a single family home in our neighborhood.
This is kinda like saying we need more farms to solve hunger.
The cost of housing is very detached from supply. For rentals, companies bought up housing and just jacked up the price, because renters are a semi captive client base.
New construction sometimes doesn’t even help, when developers knocks down an old affordable 12 unit apartment building and build a luxury 36 unit building, you’ve created -12 units of affordable housing.
Even for home buyers, they’re facing a major up hill battle going against existing home owners who have access to the capital of their current homes, and even worse corporate home buyers.
This isn’t to say supply isn’t an issue and we can ignore it, but we need to stop housing from just being an investment vehicle. Otherwise we’re just going to get garbage housing at prices no one can afford.
it’s not detached from supply at all, single house zoning and mandatory minimum parking make for a whole lot of trouble in the US
Again I’m not saying supply isn’t an issue, and zoning is def a major problem in many states. But if the issue was only supply, rent would be growing more or less in line with the population not at the astronomical rate that it is.
yeah but due to immigration the population is growing in the USA, AFAIK, also you need to account for the trend of Urbanization (somewhat offset by move to WFH)
When Vanguard and Blackrock own half of the supply, then it’s not a free market. Also, you said it’s not detached from supply at all, but then proceeded to list reasons detached from supply that affect cost.
I don’t think: “ah, buildings again. I’d rather live in camps featuring trash scent.”
The communist housing blocks are also not super high on my list of “why I don’t want to live in a communist dictatorship”
Don’t worry, they’ve outlawed homelessness. Problem solved!
Yeah, but I didn’t have to pay anything for those people to live in tents. I keep my money out of their lazy hands.
/s, deeply, if it isn’t obv.
What is this trying to say???
That low income housing is good but people like when homeless people suffer.
seems like it’s trying to imply that homeless people are homeless because houses are too expensive.
as if the guys in the bottom pic could afford a department in the top picture, but have to live in a tent because housing is expensive.
I think what the meme does say is that OP is mentally 12.
Not sure why or from where this quote comes from. In germany and poland we have many such apartment houses that are very affordable
What are you talking about dude? Those are homes with doors, locks, heat, and a bed. Compared to a tent?
Right, well even though San Diego might have state park beach front property, we shouldn’t have a tent city filling it up. This quickly becomes unhygienic, and crime rises, among other issues.
Yes, you should have a tent city filling up. San Diego is just like every other city in North America. We’re seeing the endgame of late stage capitalism. Rampant homelessness, at the risk of being redundant, is a feature of capitalism, not a bug. There is only so much money in circulation and most working class people have none of it.
To be fair new social housing looks like this:
Not enough trees and first batch was mostly single-room(as in one bedroom, one kitchen, one toilet and one bathroom in appartment), but better than humant colony.
The murals are a nice touch, let’s see how the white paint looks in 50 years though.
As in 50 years or 50 years without any maintanance and in complete neglect.
I really like russian appartement complexs, there is always green surrounding the buildings…I hate russia though
I’m from eastern Europe and those green spaces are usually not very well managed. And they also end up looking kinda sad when you live there.
Rusty playgrounds, plants not managed and growing all over the place in a not very aesthetically pleasing way, completely destroyed or very quickly patched up walkways.
I do think it’s still better than the American suburbs, but it could be so so much better if cities invested more into making these areas enjoyable to be in.
I do think it’s still better than the American suburbs, but it could be so so much better if cities invested more into making these areas enjoyable to be in.
Agreed. If anything is mismanaged it will be shitty, if something was mismanaged for 30 years and did not fall on itself, then it was built good.
I hate russia though
You probably hate Putin instead.
I hate both of them equally and with a vile passion. Having to share walls with other families is just as inhumane. I don’t know why “Urban Sprawl” is such a looked down upon term. I’d much rather cities start as a central hub, and then urban sprawl outwards with minor hubs surrounding them every 100 miles or so.
This whole – either everyone has to be packed like sardines, or everyone has to have 5 acres per house crap is annoying. Give the nation some medium density housing. We have the fucking internet now, half the people can work from home. You don’t need to be walking-distance from everything.
More like “This doesn’t exist, we’re going to deal with it just one minute” 🤗
Oh good, more edgy agenda posts
What’s edgy about it?
oh no you’ve been a victim of misinformation oh dear 🙄
